Portrait of Bishop H.P. Almon Abbott wearing clerical robes with a cross around his neck and ring on his left hand. Top right of picture is flawed. Handwritten on image back of image: Associated press photo from New York. Bishop of Lexington,...

"Whilst implicitly acknowledging the Surrealism of [Joseph] Cornell, Arman possibly evokes [Roland] Barthes's mournful vision of commodified toys as expressed in the latter's book Mythologies (1957). Barthes wrote that in the consumerist era,...